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   	Veterans/Memorial Day Poem, #79   
      
   "Thanks For The Memories"   
      
   Thanks for the memories,of raids on Germany   
   Across the cold North Sea   
   With blazing guns we fought the Huns for air Supremacy   
   How lucky we were   
      
   Thanks for the memories of Me 109's   
   Flaks guns on the Rhine   
   They did their bit and we were hit and ended our good times   
   How lucky they were   
      
   They knocked us right out of formation   
   We jumped and what a sensation, and now to sweat out the duration   
   We did have fun and now our work is done   
      
   So thanks for the memories of days we had to stay in Stalag 17-A   
   The cabbage stew which had to do, till Red Cross Parcel day   
   How hungery we were   
      
   Now thanks for the memories, of those who died afore   
   Defending those they love,   
   They did their share with lots to spare, it's them we're thinking of   
   "What memories they are"   
      
   This poem was written by my grandfather, John J. Cipriano Sr., while he was a   
   prisoner of war in East Germany during WWII.   
      
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